How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...